Luke Kenworthy, 17, was nervous on Ivy Day — the last Thursday in March, when all eight schools drop their admissions decisions.

He had already received a rejection from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was waitlisted by the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, and was deferred at Harvard University after applying early.

“I legitimately was convinced I wasn’t going to get into any Ivy League schools,” Kenworthy told Business Insider.

But his incredulity turned to shock and then excitement as he opened his decision letters and found that he’d been accepted nearly all of them — Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, read more >>>

Source:: BusinessInsider.Com